My mouth will tell about your righteousness, and of your salvation all day, though I don’t know its full measure.
Parallel translations
- KJV My mouth shall shew forth thy righteousness and thy salvation all the day; for I know not the numbers thereof.
- BSB My mouth will declare Your righteousness and Your salvation all day long, though I cannot know their full measure.
- NKJV My mouth shall tell of Your righteousness And Your salvation all the day, For I do not know their limits.
- NASB My mouth shall tell of Your righteousness And of Your salvation all day long; For I do not know the art of writing.
- NLT I will tell everyone about your righteousness. All day long I will proclaim your saving power, though I am not skilled with words.
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Cross-references · 12
- Ps 40:5Many, Yahweh, my God, are the wonderful works which you have done, and your thoughts which are toward us. They can’t be declared back to you. If I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be counted.
- Ps 35:28My tongue shall talk about your righteousness and about your praise all day long.
- Ps 71:8My mouth shall be filled with your praise, with your honor all day long.
- Ps 145:2Every day I will praise you. I will extol your name forever and ever.
- Ps 139:17–18How precious to me are your thoughts, God! How vast is their sum!
- Ps 145:5–14Of the glorious majesty of your honor, of your wondrous works, I will meditate.
- Ps 89:16In your name they rejoice all day. In your righteousness, they are exalted.
- Ps 40:9–10I have proclaimed glad news of righteousness in the great assembly. Behold, I will not seal my lips, Yahweh, you know.
- Ps 71:24My tongue will also talk about your righteousness all day long, for they are disappointed, and they are confounded, who want to harm me.
- Ps 22:22–25I will declare your name to my brothers. Among the assembly, I will praise you.
- Ps 30:12To the end that my heart may sing praise to you, and not be silent. Yahweh my God, I will give thanks to you forever!
- Ps 40:12For innumerable evils have surrounded me. My iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up. They are more than the hairs of my head. My heart has failed me.
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